Improvement in car-bumpers



R. LLYD.

Car-Bumpers..

Patented April 28,1874..

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TTURNES STATES 4I5A.';|;E1\Ifr OFFICE.

RICHARD LLOYD. or CLEVELAND,- OHIO rMPRovMEnTm c'AR-BUMPERS.

Specification formingl part of Letters Patent No. 150,249, datzd April 2B, 1874; application filed January 31, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

"Bc it known that I, RICHARD LLOYD, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, and Starte of Ohio, have invented'a new and useful Improvement in Rail- Gar Bumpers, of which the following is a specification:

The object of this invention lis to furnish a bumper for railroad-cars, which shall be more durable and elastic than those now in use; and it consists in u. metallic casing or shell attached to the car, containing a spiral or rubber spring and arbumpenblock coniined therein by shoulders and in contact with the spring.

The accompanying drawing gives an outside vieugundn longitudinal section,.oi' my improved bumper. 4

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-- .spending parts.

Ais a. shell of cast-iron surrounded bya. flange, B, by means' of which it is bolted to the timber of the car-truck. `C is a. spiral or rubber spring, and D is the bumper-block.

The interior surface of 'the shell is provided with a, shoulder, E. F is the headof the bnmperbloek, which projects ,suiciently to engage with the shoulder The head and the shoulderE are held in contact with each other by thespring, except when the cars The shell and block may be ,in any form mid.

of any size.l s

The bumper'isvery smpleycheap, and durable, and may .be applied to any eer with the greatest ease.

A Having thus desclibed my invention, I claimy as new and desire to secure by Letters Pateutf- A The combination of the shell A, vhaving shoulders B E, the'bumper D, having head F, Y a-n'dthe spring' C, es and for the purpose described. y A

lRICHARD LLOYD. Witnesses:

N. .'lovn'r, l JOHN BREEN. 

